The BEST Epsom Salt Bath Soak Recipe

Mental and physical well-being is essential to having the kind of kick-ass life that you want to live. Stress and illness can set you back from your goals and impact every other area of your life. This amazing epsom salt bath soak recipe will help you sink back and relax.

How The Epsom Salt Bath Works with Your Skin

The skin is the largest organ of the body, and it has the ability to absorb whatever we put on it. If we load up our skin with chemicals and potential carcinogens, it can impact our entire body.

Conversely, if you put health, natural compounds on our skin, it can positively impact our health—even our brain’s health.

The ingredients in this epsom salt bath are just that: healthy, nourishing ingredients that will rejuvenate our physical and mental health.

All of the products below, I recommend, use, and prefer.

Epsom Salt Bath Soak Recipe Ingredients

Magnesium: A Healthy Mineral

Epsom salts contain magnesium, which is needed in our bodies for things like regulating nerve function, regulating blood sugar levels (SUPER important) and making new protein, bone, and DNA. Not only that, magnesium deficiency is associated with anxiety, nausea, and muscle twitching or spasms. It helps regulate digestion. Oh, and it can help alleviate symptoms of PMS!

Magnesium is a mineral that just never gets enough credit for the things it does for us!

Personally, I like the effect that magnesium has on my sleep, alleviating my anxiety and stress, and making my digestion more regular.

I very much recommend Dr. Teal’s epsom salt bath for its high quality.

But be careful you don’t use too much epsom salts, or have the water too hot… it can make you feel funny after your bath.

Baking Soda & Apple Cider Vinegar for your Skin

Baking soda is a fantastic and cheap way to bring some vibrance to your skin and help detox. It helps relieve tension and pain, and soothe yeast infections and eczema!

Apple cider vinegar is an acidic liquid that is known to have anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-viral properties. It is absolutely fantastic for clarifying the skin! Like Baking Soda, ACV can clear acne, reduce redness, and assist in drawing toxins from the skin.

I use Arm & Hammer Baking Soda and Bragg’s ACV.

Powerful Essential Oils for Stress

I like to use lavender for relaxing, frankincense for clarifying, and clary sage for hormone balancing. Another good combination is lemon and sweet orange for revitalizing, frankincense for clarifying.

There is an essential oil for every facet of health.

Epsom Salt Bath Soak Recipe

Start the tap and add the following (in this order):

• 1 cup Epsom salt
• 1/3 cup baking soda
• 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar (or less, depending on how sensitive you are to the smell)
• 5-7 drops essential oils

It should fizz! You may need to stir everything around for the baking soda and epsom salts to be fully incorporated.

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Ambience

To make it extra relaxing, light some candles and dim the lights. Blue light from our phones and screens can have a harmful effect on our sleep and stress levels. Orange light from fire is more natural and calming.

Meditation and mindfulness have amazing health benefits. There are many different kinds, so choose one that’s right for you as you relax. Just be sure you don’t fall asleep in the bath!

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After the Epsom Salt Bath

After an epsom salt bath, it’s fairly normal to feel a little wobbly. A bath can help increase blood flow, and you may not be used to experiencing that much oxygen. (Yes, you can pass out from getting too much oxygen. This is the same principle that makes people hyperventilate.)

But if you feel lightheaded, nauseous, or extremely drowsy (beyond relaxed), that can be an indication of magnesium toxicity.

Because magnesium is a laxative, it can dehydrate you. Be sure you drink plenty of water!

You should always aim to drink half of your weight (in pounds) in water (in ounces) every day.

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When Should I Use This Epsom Salt Bath Soak Recipe?

I take epsom salt baths any time that I begin to feel drained, exhausted, sore, or wired. But many people swear by taking an epsom salt bath every week. An epsom salt bath is gentle enough that many health professionals even recommend them in pregnancy!

So go take your Epsom salt bath for stress right now and start feeling rejuvenated!

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